{"slug": "the-social-consequences-of-ai-delegation", "title": "The social consequences of AI delegation", "summary": "A new paper argues that large language models (LLMs) are becoming consequential social actors as humans increasingly delegate deliberation to AI across health, law, finance, education, and personal guidance. The authors call for a research programme treating LLMs as systems whose outputs shape human decisions, social norms, and collective dynamics.", "body_md": "# Physics > Physics and Society\n\n[Submitted on 9 Jun 2026]\n\n# Title:The social consequences of AI delegation\n\n[View PDF](/pdf/2606.11058)\n\n[HTML (experimental)](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11058v1)\n\nAbstract:A substantial body of recent work has debated whether large language models (LLMs) can serve as substitutes for human participants in behavioural research. This debate, however, captures only one direction of a rapidly changing relationship. The more consequential question is not simply whether researchers should use LLMs as human surrogates, but whether - and under what conditions - humans are beginning to use LLMs as surrogates for their own deliberation. Across domains including health, law, finance, education, and personal guidance, increasing numbers of people consult generative AI systems before, alongside, or instead of human experts, peers, or independent judgment. Although evidence for actual delegation remains uneven, this uncertainty makes the phenomenon an urgent social-scientific object of study. We argue for a research programme that treats LLMs as consequential social actors in a functional sense: systems whose outputs shape human decisions, social norms, and collective dynamics.\n\n### Current browse context:\n\nphysics.soc-ph\n\nChange to browse by:\n\n### References & Citations\n\nLoading...\n\n# Bibliographic and Citation Tools\n\nBibliographic Explorer\n\n*(*[What is the Explorer?](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/showcase.html#arxiv-bibliographic-explorer))\nConnected Papers\n\n*(*[What is Connected Papers?](https://www.connectedpapers.com/about))\nLitmaps\n\n*(*[What is Litmaps?](https://www.litmaps.co/))\nscite Smart Citations\n\n*(*[What are Smart Citations?](https://www.scite.ai/))# Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article\n\nalphaXiv\n\n*(*[What is alphaXiv?](https://alphaxiv.org/))\nCatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers\n\n*(*[What is CatalyzeX?](https://www.catalyzex.com))\nDagsHub\n\n*(*[What is DagsHub?](https://dagshub.com/))\nGotit.pub\n\n*(*[What is GotitPub?](http://gotit.pub/faq))\nHugging Face\n\n*(*[What is Huggingface?](https://huggingface.co/huggingface))\nScienceCast\n\n*(*[What is ScienceCast?](https://sciencecast.org/welcome))# Demos\n\n# Recommenders and Search Tools\n\nInfluence Flower\n\n*(*[What are Influence Flowers?](https://influencemap.cmlab.dev/))\nCORE Recommender\n\n*(*[What is CORE?](https://core.ac.uk/services/recommender))# arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators\n\narXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.\n\nBoth individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.\n\nHave an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? [ Learn more about arXivLabs](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/index.html).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-social-consequences-of-ai-delegation", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11058", "published_at": "2026-06-13 00:35:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 00:46:08.731086+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-research", "ai-policy"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-social-consequences-of-ai-delegation", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-social-consequences-of-ai-delegation.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-social-consequences-of-ai-delegation.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-social-consequences-of-ai-delegation.jsonld"}}